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More than five years ago, Deborah Parker found a newborn fawn abandoned in the woods near her 30-acre animal sanctuary in Vermilion, Ohio.

“I got her when she was still wet from being born,” Parker told WJW-TV in Cleveland. “The mother had three and the herd took off.”

Parker took in the deer she named “Baby” and has been caring for her — not as a wild animal but as a family pet — ever since.

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But state wildlife authorities have reportedly ordered Parker to give up Baby.

In fact, she told WJW, a wildlife officer paid a visit this week to her St. Francis Animal Sanctuary and said “if I turn her over to them, I won’t be charged with anything and if I don’t turn her over, then they take it to court and I have to pay the costs and then she’ll be euthanized anyway. There was no options.”

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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources considers the deer a wild animal, regardless of its upbringing.

“Tame deer could also pose a threat of disease transmission to the wild deer herd, humans and pets if released into the wild. For these reasons, unfortunately euthanasia is the best option,” the department said in a statement.

“She’d be so horrified if people came to hurt her,” Parker said, her voice breaking. “She’s never known pain a day in her life.”

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Parker added that she’s hired a lawyer to stop the state from taking Baby away.

“She’s a family pet and they say it’s against the law,” she told WJW. “So I tried to save a life and it’s against the law and now they wanna come and kill her.”

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They want to take away land from farmers supposedly “to protect animals” (like the Snail Darter, foe example) while at the same time demanding that family pets be killed.
How much more bass ackwards, can these libs get?